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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Explains Choice for Single-Touch Wii U GamePad Functionality

« on: June 14, 2012, 04:15:11 PM »

Considering console gaming has gotten along just fine up until now without ANY form of touch screen control at all, I'm sure we can get along just fine with it just being the single touch variety.

One potential problem though, is that if Sony or Microsoft copy the tablet controller (and who am I kidding? We all KNOW they will do exactly that), they may put multi touch support in their version and then they would have a competitive edge over the Wii U. Just like right now Microsoft has the Kinect which doesn't just equal the Wiimote in terms of functionality, but goes way beyond it to give the 360 a huge edge in the motion gaming market. Sony and their dinky Move thing isn't really a quantum leap forward over the wiimote though, but the Kinect is a perfect example of how a competitor can not only rip off one of Nintendo's ideas, but improve upon it and then leave Nintendo in the dust. Let's hope that doesn't happen here with this multi touch thing, but I think it almost certainly will.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: People Need To Stop Bitching

« on: June 14, 2012, 02:48:11 PM »

So they should just copy Rock Band and not make a Nintendo game?  If they did that, you'd complain that they didn't make a Nintendo game and just a clone of something you could already get with Rock Band.

At least if they had copied Rock Band/Guitar hero it would have been an actual game. Would I complain about it being a rip off of those games? I don't know... maybe. But again, at least it would have been an actual game and something that was worth a crap as opposed to something no one can understand or make up their minds about what it actually even is.

I don't complain about Wii Music because its something I never tried because I had zero interest in it (for the reasons I pointed out above). Had it been a Rock Band clone I would have had more interest in it and maybe would have given it a try. If I tried it maybe I would have complained, but that would still bea huge improvement over Wii Music which I didn't even want to try period.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: June 14, 2012, 02:34:55 PM »

I don't think Nintendo should give out money hats, because the moment they start doing that then EVERY third party is going to start demanding it.

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TalkBack / Re: Dead Space 3 'Not Currently in the Plan' for Wii U

« on: June 14, 2012, 02:32:00 PM »

Their attitude is probably that this game is too "mature" for the "kiddy casual" Wii U.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: People Need To Stop Bitching

« on: June 14, 2012, 01:14:06 PM »

The main reason I wasn't interested in Wii Music is because there was only Nintendo's own compositions, as well as a few public domain songs... who cares about "twinkle twinkle little star"? And another problem was there was no musical peripheral for it. No guitar accessory, no drums, no keyboard, no nothing. You do it with the wiimote/chuck. So that's two areas where it could have been hugely improved. If it was more like Guitar Hero or Rock Band and had popular modern songs people cared about and actual musical peripherals it could have been a very cool product.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Weighing Multiple 3DS Zelda Options

« on: June 14, 2012, 12:55:12 PM »

So everyone's happy with New Super Mario Bros. 2 and New Super Mario Bros. U?

Its better than the casual games it could have been.

And with that said, I think a lot of the griping you see over Nintendo milking too many sequels out of a franchise mainly revolves around the Mario franchise. How many Mario games have we seen the last 5 years or so? Every year we get multiple Mario games. I think that's what 90% of the griping is about. Other Nintendo franchises like Metroid, Zelda, Star Fox, etc. aren't getting these endless yearly repetitive sequels the way Mario does. That's why talk about a new Zelda still holds a lot of excitement, whereas talk of another Mario game isn't quite as exciting because there's just so many of them.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Weighing Multiple 3DS Zelda Options

« on: June 14, 2012, 12:48:09 PM »

Why does it amuse you that core gamers want more of a core franchise?

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Weighing Multiple 3DS Zelda Options

« on: June 14, 2012, 11:59:38 AM »

Why must they pursue only one option? Why not do all of them?

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TalkBack / Re: System-Level Achievements Coming to Wii U

« on: June 14, 2012, 11:23:45 AM »

Well, I'll let Ian speak for himself. But the impression I got was that he was fine with achievement as an OPTION, and that bit you quoted was what he said he would do if he were a developer being forced to include them. When people are forced to do stuff they don't want to do against their will they will tend to do them the most half ass way possible, or deliberately sabotage it out of spite. That's why I agree that this shouldn't be forced. Its just like why having a military made up of volunteers gives you better results than a military made up of draftees. People who are doing something they don't want to against their will are going to half ass it, or even toss a monkey wrench in to **** things up.

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TalkBack / Re: System-Level Achievements Coming to Wii U

« on: June 14, 2012, 11:16:33 AM »

Okay, well that bit does looks like he was mocking achievement advocates... especially when you snip it out and quote it completely out of context.

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TalkBack / Re: Iwata Acknowledges Difficulty in Surpassing Online Networks of Competitors

« on: June 14, 2012, 11:12:39 AM »

Because WATCHING is the exacting same as building your own version from the ground up, right?

Yeah, but why didn't they start building it 6 years ago? I think that was his point. Nintendo watched, but did absolutely nothing. I know Rome wasn't built in a day and no one is expecting them to catch up over night, but the point is why is the work on catching up only starting now?

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TalkBack / Re: System-Level Achievements Coming to Wii U

« on: June 14, 2012, 11:08:51 AM »

Ian is also mocking anyone who likes or cares about achievements/trophies.

No, he wasn't. He was only mocking the policy of Sony and Microsoft where they were mandatory. I think he is fine with them being an option.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Learning from E3 about Best Way to Sell Wii U

« on: June 14, 2012, 11:05:13 AM »

Good.  Nintendo has a track record of good results basing the marketing and sales strategy for their devices based on "feedback" from E3.  Just look at a couple of years ago when hype around the 3DS reveal caused them to hike the price of the handhel----OH WAIT.   

That makes it all the better that the reaction to this year's E3 was lukewarm at best. It would be good for Nintendo to realize they have their work cut out for them, and that it is going to take some elbow grease to convince consumers that the Wii U is worth their money.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: June 14, 2012, 10:44:03 AM »

Does Retro include any of the old talent that made up Rare? If so, that would explain why they would have asked to do DKCR. Otherwise, they might just perceive themselves as the reincarnation of Rare.

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TalkBack / Re: Retro Studios Not Working on Wii U Zelda Title

« on: June 14, 2012, 02:59:30 AM »

So Retro is only good enough to remake other people's games, but they aren't good enough to make their own?

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General Chat / Yankees fan found guilty of stabbing Red Sox fan in neck

« on: June 14, 2012, 02:24:12 AM »

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/yankees-red-sox-stabbing-bar-fight-connecticut-141558851.html

It never ceases to amaze me how serious some people get about sports. Its just fucking entertainment. Its probably all fake anyway, just like how pro wrestling is fake. Couldn't they have just settled their dispute over a friendly game of Wii Sports instead?

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TalkBack / Re: System-Level Achievements Coming to Wii U

« on: June 14, 2012, 01:36:16 AM »

Ian isn't mocking the feature; he's mocking the policy of making said feature mandatory. I don't see how that's hypocritical. He even said he supports it being there as an option. Its the REQUIREMENT that he is griping about.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Planning 3DS Successor, Not Revision

« on: June 14, 2012, 01:29:23 AM »

Hey everybody, remember when Nintendo said they weren't working on a revision for the DS, and then like a week later announced the DS Lite? They will deny the existence of a revision, which we all know is inevitable, right up until the point they announce it.

That's what I've been saying all along. Miyamoto is denying it because he was asked a direct question and any other response (even if he just evaded the question or was silent) would have been interpreted as a confirmation, so denying it was his only option, even though its a lie.

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TalkBack / Re: Wii U Will Support Purchases Via Web Browser

« on: June 14, 2012, 01:25:55 AM »

Won't this make the system a bit more vulnerable to hackers?

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TalkBack / Re: Call of Duty: Black Ops II Coming to Wii U

« on: June 14, 2012, 01:15:31 AM »

Technically Black Ops 2 would be COD 9, but they don't formally number the COD games anymore. But they might do it again in the future. If they do, it would kinda be like the Windows operating system where Windows 3.11 was the last numbered version and then there was a lot of other stuff in between, but then a few years ago Microsoft released Windows 7 and got the numbering system back on track. Its not impossible Activision might do that with the COD franchise again.

I think that would probably happen if they were to reboot the series or send it back to the world war 2 era. If the popularity of the series starts to plateau they might consider doing that.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: June 14, 2012, 12:18:50 AM »

The Sega Saturn was always doomed to fail because the American and Japanese branches of Sega hated each other and created a huge internal clusterf*ck in the company.  Seriously, anyone that hasn't read about the way Sega was managed during the 90's needs to because it'll show just how terrible the people running Sega were and how the management was beyond incompetent.

This is why once again, the only thing that killed Sega was Sega themselves.

All of that may be true, but if there had been no competition and the Saturn had launched in a vacuum it would have won by default, regardless of all other factors.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Why did Nintendo make the Wii[U] a carbon copy of the Wii?

« on: June 14, 2012, 12:16:36 AM »

You know why the attach rate for the 360 is so low? It's because the amount of owners who have purchased more than 360 console because the last one red ringed is probably one in three, possibly higher. This brings down the games purchased per system average down.

The PS3 has a similar failure rate on its old PHAT model with its YLOD.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: June 13, 2012, 02:46:29 PM »

If neither the Saturn nor PS1 had been on the market it would have been a power vacuum which the 3D0 and Jaguar would have grown to fill.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: June 13, 2012, 01:44:05 PM »

Didn't they fail before the PS1 came out? Or am I remembering things wrong?

They both failed somewhere around 1996-1997, so that was like a year or two after the PS1 came out. I'm not sure how much of a role the PS1 played in their demise... truth be told they probably would have died regardless, but who knows?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Why did Nintendo make the Wii[U] a carbon copy of the Wii?

« on: June 13, 2012, 01:17:50 PM »

Lol, that video was a good find. I really did laugh at that part when the guy was driving the car in the game.

I wonder what sort of news reports the Wii U is going to get this holiday season. Hopefully there will be some we can look back on years from now and laugh at, just like that one.